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Re: How to log inbound IPs on telnet connection?



On 06/26/11 at 05:18pm, Alexander Lardner wrote:
> Hello,
> I run a vintage BBS on my Debian box that uses telnet for connections.
> By default, the software is written to accept connections on port
> 1234, as opposed to 23 as is default for telnet. I use a little
> utility called redir that takes inbound connections on port 23 and
> reroutes them locally to port 1234. The problem is, it shows that
> users connected from localhost as opposed to their actual IP. I need a
> way to be able to log IPs to ban troublemakers. Is there a program or
> script to log inbound IPs?

Probably you would be well served by IPtables instead of your 'redir' utility.
Look into the REDIRECT target in the nat table.
See if this modifies what the inbound IP appears to be.

-- 
Liam

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